by both sides: the Serbs didnt want to agree to a NATO

three-rouble note. His face wore a look of genuine sympathy.

Katerina Ivanovna took it and gave him a polite, even ceremonious,

"I thank you, honoured sir," she began loftily. "The causes that

have induced us (take the money, Polenka: you see there are generous

and honourable people who are ready to help a poor gentlewoman in

distress). You see, honoured sir, these orphans of good family- I

might even say of aristocratic connections- and that wretch of a

general sat eating grouse... and stamped at my disturbing him. 'Your